On Sunday, Politico reported that Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and special adviser, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) have begun strategizing how best to advance a new paid family leave proposal. The reporting comes on the heels of President Donald Trump's State of the Union Speech, in which he specifically called for a national paid family leave policy.
At the moment, it seems unlikely the issue will get much attention this year. Congress is currently struggling with a number of more pressing issues—funding the government, raising the debt ceiling, stabilizing the ACA's non-group markets, protecting Dreamers, and so forth.
Nonetheless, paid family leave is slowly but surely becoming something of a bipartisan issue as politicians recognize its effects on voters across the political spectrum. According to a report published last year by the Urban Institute, only 14 percent of American civilian workers had access to paid family leave through their employers in 2016. This makes the United States a prominent outlier among other developed, industrialized countries.
[For more on this story by DWYER GUNN, go to https://psmag.com/economics/paid-family-leave-proposals]
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